# List of people from Delhi

This is a list of notable people from Delhi, India.

## Architect

* Ratish Nanda, conservation architect

## Author

* Anurag Anand
* Asloob Ahmad Ansari
* Chetan Bhagat
* Bedil Dehlavi (1642–1720), poet
* Ghalib, Urdu/Persian poet
* Kiran Desai
* Madhur Jaffrey
* Meenakshi Jain
* Ritu Lalit
* Jaishree Misra
* Amrita Pritam
* Aman Nath
* Tushar Raheja
* Imdad Sabri
* Nattal Sahu, writer during Tomara reign
* Gaurav Sharma
* Shobha Deepak Singh
* Nitin Soni
* Vibudh Shridhar, writer in medieval period
* Sudhir Tailang, cartoonist
* Valmik Thapar
* Zauq, poet laureate of Mughal court
* Bahadurshah Zafar, Mughal king (last to rule from Mughal Dynasty) and Urdu poet

## Business

* Kunal Bahl, entrepreneur
* Rohit Bansal, entrepreneur
* Vijay Shekhar Sharma, entrepreneur, Paytm
* Analjit Singh, entrepreneur, Max Group
* Vikram Lal, entrepreneur, Eicher Motors
* Jawed Habib, hairstylist, entrepreneur
* Patu Keswani, entrepreneur
* Surinder Mehta
* Bharat Ram
* Kunwer Sachdev, entrepreneur
* Ajay Singh, businessman, sports administrator, bureaucrat and investor

## Education

* Jasleen Dhamija (born 1933), textile historian
* Deepak Gaur, molecular biologist, and professor
* Anil Grover
* Partha Sarathi Gupta
* Champat Rai Jain
* Hakim Ajmal Khan
* Syed Ahmad Khan
* Madhu Khanna
* Sunil Kothari
* Sushil Kumar Saxena
* Malati Shendge
* Sampat Kumar Tandon

## Journalist

* Gopinath Aman
* Afshan Anjum
* Vikram Chandra
* Barkha Dutt
* Sagarika Ghose
* Sonal Kalra
* Mayanti Langer
* Charul Malik
* Rajat Sharma
* Sabina Sehgal Saikia
* Hari Shankar Vyas

## Law and judiciary

* Sanjiv Khanna
* Subodh Markandeya

## Medical

* Daljeet Singh Gambhir
* Hemlata Gupta
* Jitendra Mohan Hans
* Ganesh Kumar Mani
* Siddhartha Mukherjee
* Indira Nath
* Abha Saxena
* Krishna Gopal Saxena
* Santosh Kumar Sen
* Sujata Sharma
* Noshir M. Shroff, ophthalmologist
* M. V. Padma Srivastava
* Nikhil Tandon
* Brihaspati Dev Triguna

## Military

* Anuj Nayyar, Indian army captain

## Performing arts
### Actors

* Varun Badola
* Arjan Bajwa
* Manoj Bakshi
* Rohit Bakshi
* Rakesh Bedi
* Tahir Raj Bhasin
* Gajendra Chauhan
* Priyanshu Chatterjee
* Gaurav Chopra
* Aakash Dahiya
* Mukul Dev
* Rahul Dev
* Ajay Devgan (born 1969), Indian Bollywood actor and producer
* Rajneesh Duggal
* Gulshan Grover
* Karan Singh Grover, television and Bollywood actor
* Zain Imam, television actor
* Sourabh Raj Jain, television actor
* Kishore Namit Kapoor
* Ram Kapoor
* Shahid Kapoor
* Shakti Kapoor
* Saif Ali Khan (born 1970), Indian actor
* Shah Rukh Khan (born 1965), Indian Bollywood actor
* Rajesh Khattar, actor
* Samir Kochhar
* Himansh Kohli
* Akshay Kumar
* Darshan Kumar
* Manoj Kumar
* Laksh Lalwani
* Pavan Malhotra
* Siddharth Malhotra, actor
* Shivin Narang
* Hiten Noonwal
* Manoj Pahwa
* Ssumier Pasricha, actor and comedian
* Pran
* Vijay Raaz
* Gautam Rode
* Sumeet Sachdev
* Anuj Sachdeva
* Amit Sadh
* Saqib Saleem
* Pulkit Samrat
* Keith Sequeira
* Divyendu Sharma
* Satyajit Sharma
* Saurabh Shukla
* Inderpal Singh
* Manjot Singh
* Shaurya Singh
* Barun Sobti, television actor
* Karan Wahi
* Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub
* Manit Joura, television actor

### Actress

* Anu Aggarwal
* Roma Arora
* Neelima Azeem
* Naseem Banu
* Ritu Barmecha
* Bipasha Basu
* Swara Bhaskar
* Bibbo
* Sheeba Chaddha
* Isha Chawla
* Ridhi Dogra
* Esha Gupta
* Neena Gupta
* Padmapriya Janakiraman
* Vaani Kapoor
* Minissha Lamba
* Radhika Madan
* Madhubala (1933–69), Indian Bollywood actress
* Rashi Mal
* Sanya Malhotra
* Manasvi Mamgai
* Monal Naval
* Arundathi Nag
* Shonali Nagrani
* Aishveryaa Nidhi
* Tapsee Pannu
* Huma Qureshi, actress
* Kriti Sanon, actress
* Amba Sanyal (born 1945), stage actor and costume designer
* Deeksha Seth
* Pooja Sharma
* Urvashi Sharma
* Deepika Singh
* Kashish Singh
* Neetu Singh
* Rakul Preet Singh
* Raashi Khanna
* Sarika Thakur
* Vani Tripathi

### Directors, producers and writers

* Atul Agnihotri
* Shubhavi Arya
* Vikas Bahl (born 1971), Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director
* Dev Benegal
* Aditya Dhar
* Amar Kanwar (born 1964), Indian film director and contemporary artist
* Rajat Kapoor
* Bhushan Kumar
* Divya Khosla Kumar
* Gulshan Kumar
* Anu Malhotra
* Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
* Nisha Pahuja
* Aanand L. Rai
* Maneesh Sharma
* Alankrita Shrivastava
* Loveleen Tandan

### Singers and musicians

* KK (singer)
* Sunidhi Chauhan
* Javed Ali
* Badshah, rapper and singer
* Akriti Kakar
* Prakriti Kakar
* Sukriti Kakar
* Harshdeep Kaur
* Tulsi Kumar
* Madhup Mudgal
* Anushka Manchanda
* Mukesh (1923–1976), Indian playback singer from 1940s-1970s Hindi cinema
* Bif Naked (born 1971), Canadian punk rock singer
* Peter Plate (born 1967), German singer, songwriter and producer (Rosenstolz)
* Yo Yo Honey Singh, rapper and producer
* Ikka Singh, rapper and singer
* Seedhe Maut, Hip hop duo

### Choreography

* Shakti Mohan

## Philanthropists and social workers

* Kiran Martin

## Photographers

* Adnan Abidi
* Pablo Bartholomew
* Pamella Bordes
* Arko Datta
* Gauri Gill
* Saadiya Kochar
* Vicky Roy
* Danish Siddiqui
* Dayanita Singh
* Shobha Deepak Singh
* Komala Varadan
* Vineet Vohra

## Politics

* Paddy Ashdown (1941–2018), British politician
* Ramesh Bidhuri
* Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
* Michael Bennet (born 1964), American politician
* Sheila Dikshit, former chief minister
* Gautam Gambhir
* Maneka Gandhi
* Priyanka Gandhi
* Rahul Gandhi
* S. Jaishankar
* Arun Jaitley
* Arvind Kejriwal, ex chief minister
* Meenakshi Lekhi, cabinet minister
* Chaudhary Bharat Singh
* Ajay Maken
* Pervez Musharraf (born 1943), Pakistani politician
* Kedar Nath Sahani
* Kanwar Singh Tanwar
* Harsh Vardhan
* Sahib Singh Verma
* Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma

## Rulers
### Rajputs

* Anangpal Tomar, King of Haryana and Delhi
* Prithviraj Chauhan, King of much of North India

### Sayyids

* Muhammad Shah

### Lodi

* Ibrahim Lodhi

### Mughals

* Ahmad Shah Bahadur
* Shah Alam II
* Bahadur Shah Zafar

## Science

* Diwakar Vaish, roboticist

## Sports
### Athletic

* Arun Bhardwaj
* Amoj Jacob
* Lalit Mathur
* Tejaswin Shankar
* Sourabh Vij

### Badminton

* Damayanti Tambay

### Billiards

* Geet Sethi (born 1961), Indian billiard player and world champion

### Chess

* Aryan Chopra
* Sahaj Grover
* Parimarjan Negi (born 1993), Indian chess player
* Tania Sachdev

### Cricket

* Mohinder Amarnath
* Kirti Azad
* Amit Bhandari
* Unmukt Chand
* Chetan Chauhan
* Aakash Chopra
* Anjum Chopra
* Nikhil Chopra
* Vijay Dahiya
* Shikhar Dhawan
* Salim Durani
* Gautam Gambhir
* Rajinder Goel
* Shilpa Gupta
* Ajay Jadeja
* Surinder Khanna
* Virat Kohli
* Raman Lamba
* Warren Lee
* Reema Malhotra
* Mithun Manhas
* Amit Mishra
* Parvinder Awana
* Ashish Nehra
* Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
* Manoj Prabhakar
* Vivek Razdan
* Rahul Sanghvi
* Virender Sehwag
* Ajay Sharma
* Amita Sharma
* Ishant Sharma
* Sanjeev Sharma
* Robin Singh, Jr.
* Sunil Valson
* Atul Wassan

### Football

* Jyoti Ann Burrett
* Aayushmaan Chaturvedi
* Aditi Chauhan
* Dalima Chhibber
* Narender Gahlot
* Tanvie Hans
* Rohit Kumar
* Munmun Lugun
* Ishan Pandita

### Golf

* Gaurav Ghei
* Shiv Kapur
* Rashid Khan
* Chiragh Kumar
* Mukesh Kumar
* Amit Luthra
* Himmat Rai
* Jyoti Randhawa
* Digvijay Singh

### Hockey

* Raghbir Singh Bhola
* Arthur Charles Hind
* Abdul Qayyum Khan
* Manju Phalswal
* Jaswant Singh Rajput
* Aziz-ur Rehman
* Joginder Singh
* Khawaja Muhammad Taqi

### Martial art

* Om Prakash Bhardwaj
* Akram Shah
* Narender Singh

### Skiing

* Neha Ahuja, Winter Olympian
* Shailaja Kumar, Winter Olympian

### Table tennis

* Manika Batra
* Indu Puri

### Boxing

* Gaurav Bidhuri, world boxing Bronze medal winner

### Tennis

* Ankita Bhambri
* Prerna Bhambri
* Yuki Bhambri
* Divij Sharan
* Ashutosh Singh
* Jasjit Singh

### Wrestling

* Jyoti
* Parkash Gian
* Guru Hanuman
* Sonika Kaliraman
* Pawan Kumar
* Sushil Kumar
* Sujeet Maan
* Malwa Singh
* Satpal Singh

## Miscellaneous

* Gita Bhartiji (born 1944), Hindu guru
* Ravi Gulati (born 1974), social activist
* Laila Tyabji (born 1947), co-founder of Dastkar, Padma Shri (2012)